When
I tell my friends that we have degus as pets they usually respond
surprised. "You have a what???" is often their first
reaction. If I repeat that we have degus, I once again have to
explain what degus are.

Degus are very unknown pets. Most people
have never seen, nor heard of them before. Even in some pet stores
they don't know about degus. There are not many books about them,
and the information on the internet is very scarce. Often the
info from books, internet and pet stores is contradictory, so
it's hard to find out which is right and which is wrong. In other
words, finding out what degus are and how to take care of them
is a pretty tough job.

This
website was originally made in the dutch language. The site was
a succes in the Netherlands, that's why we decided to translate
it into English. This way, more people can take advantage of
it. With this site we hope to increase the degu's popularity
as a pet. Another and more important goal is to make sure that
degu owners take good care of their pets and learn to treat their
degus in the right way.

We cannot guarantee that everything
we write is correct, but we tried to make a complete and correct
survey about degus and their needs. If you find information on
this site which is not correct please let us know, so that we
can improve our site.